INSTRUCTION

Our Mexican cooking school includes cooking classes to prepare the following meals:

Class 1:
- Introduction to the kitchen
- Guacamole
- Fish ceviche "Zihuatanejo style"
- Shrimp “al ajillo”
- Mexican rice
- Rice water “horchata”
- Coconut flan

Class 2:
- Salsa macha
- Raw sauces (green & red)
- Fava bean and nopal salad
- Green pozole
- Agua de Jamaica
- Pecan pie

Class 3:
- Mayan sauce
- Molcajeteadas salsa
- Pre-Hispanic corn soup
- Shrimp pancakes with mole
- White rice with fried bananas
- Lemon water with chia
- Sweet pumpkin desert

Class 4:
- Pico de gallo "tropical"
- Jicama, mango and papaya salad
- Red Snapper "a la talla" (marinated and spiced)
- Refried beans with hoja santa or aculyo and chipotle chile
- Cheese, mushroom, and squash blossom quesadillas
- Traditional Mexican sorbet

Note: These menu items are subject to change

OUR INSTRUCTORS

Our highest priority when running our cooking tours is to recruit the best instructors in the industry! In selecting our staff we not only look for accomplished chefs and instructors but also those who have the charisma to make your trip unforgettable. Chef Hugo Gutierrez is Executive Chef at Haramara Retreat, one of the leading chefs in Mexico, and a recent inductee to the Academie Culinaire de France. His expertise is honed from traditional Mexican cooking at his mother’s knee followed by formal training as an apprentice to a renowned French chef in Mexico City. His style of food is best described as "organic, rustic Mexican", using only the freshest local ingredients for their healthy and natural traits.